I stopped into motor city today to get my swipe card gift and played a little VP on the ALL STAR games, and noticed that like 1/2 of them which are multi-denom/multi-games have been downgraded. I was playing in the middle machine in a bank of 3 machines and both machines on the right and left of me were changed. Right away when I sat down I knew something was up because the menu is a lot smaller then what it used to be. Some machines I saw like 4 of them, still have the full menu and looked OK, but maybe that just means they haven't gotten around to all of them yet, but the chase the royal and 5 aces poker game are now gone off of the changed machines, and the only games left on the main left side menu are 3/5/10 play and spin poker. Many of the paytables are downgraded to like 8/5 JOB and 9/5 DBL, bonus, 9/7/4 DBL bonus, every game took a hit it seems, on deuces wild royals now only pay 100.... Most changed machines either have a denom of either .25 or $1 to play also, and no .50 or $2 denoms. Some games on the 3/5/10-play menu only have a couple of games to play too instead of the normal menu that was there with 9 games listed under each game and denom.
It doesn't look good, and more bad news for the Detroit area.
I stopped into MGM and hit a quad on pickem so I was happy to be leaving ahead. For the life of me, I could not believe how busy MGM was as compared to motor city. On the way out, I stopped to watch a lady play some 7/5 $1 DBL, DBL Bonus and others playing 8/5 & 7/5 JOB and just shook my head in disbelief that people will still play a VP machine with that bad of a paytable at that denom.
-L